On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Jed Reynolds <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jimmy Bradley wrote:
> > I'm just curious if any one else has noticed this. I've bought
> > hard drives from both Walmart and Best Buy. If I can wait, I order them
> > from newegg.com. I'm beginning to think that the staff at both Walmart
> > and Best Buy, somewhere along the supply line must dribble the drives
> > like basket balls. The reason I say that is all the drives I have bought
> > from those two places fail within a few months time. Has anyone else
> > noticed that? Just curious
>
> You might want to consider them as possibly recycled drives. If you
> don't have a copy of SpinRite you can force the drive to check all the
> sectors with fdisk ...
>
> fdisk -f -y -c -c
Which fdisk utility are you using? According to the man pages and the
online help, the fdisk / sfdisk utilities that ship with CentOS don't
appear to have a "-c" option.
> or if you are formatting,
>
> mkfs.ext3 -c -c
You can also use the badblocks(8) utility to check for bad sectors.
> will also do this check.
>
> This will byte-swap check and should force updates of SMART statistics
> and bad-sector detection on the drive.
You can also run an extended SMART self-test to verify the drive integrity.
- Ryan
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